The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-11-04

/ A good and faithful servant ia Fred. Bohul.
ties. He hiss been guarding the premises OF
| Milton Bhook, Of Bethany, aEatiot county
| Mich, and when e couple OF thieves were
| stealing that FentlsmnBs corn, the other
night. no came down on them like hawk on
. June bug. They wanted 10 give mp the
corn. but he said no. Then they offered - to
settle, and he said no again. What would ne
dor He would take SO for the eight buBh-
els they had in their wagon. They didn't
really want tho corn at that pElce, but thsy
took it.
Joseph Burritt, Of Ithaca, n. L, claims 70
be the ssnior 5sweler Of that State, if not OF
the country. He was ninety-two years 81
age upon his last birthday, but n still in
vigorous heaIthand in daily attendance upon
hls mercantile duties He was born in Con
nectiuut in 1895, but has been engaged in
the jewelry business at Ithaca since 1876,
When that plEoe was little more thana ham,
let MIR. Burritt has q phenomeually large
number of Hneal descendants, and at a re-
cent family gathering there were five geneE-
atoms Of Burritts under his roof.
It il said that Stewart, the Wichita [KRn.)
drug clerk who was sentenced to seventeen
years imprisonment and to pay fine OF
$50, 500 for selling liquor, If now clerk in
a drug store in Garden City, Kan, and that
he WAS released upon the payment OF $500.
1t is charged that he was persuaded to plead
guilty by the Deputy Attorney General Of
the State for the effect his sentence might
have on other vioIatOrs OF the pTohibItory
law, with the understanding that he would
have 10 pay only 8 small amount and wonld
not be imprisoned. The Attorney General
says he has no knowledge Of such an arrange
ment, and thas he will investigate the mat
ter
Several years ago William Gibbons, o
brother Of Sir John Gibbons, Of StanTell
Place, England, came to New Haven, where
he lived and died. He WAS buried in the
Whimeyyille Cemetery, and Elias DECKER
man. the executor of the estate, paid Sl75
for a lot and monument, In 1880 he found
that the sale had not been properly recorded,
and be allowed the body to be taken up and
rebnried III a corner of the cemetery. The
body of Amelia Gilbert was put in the place
of the dead Englishman, and later the body
of her husband was lald alongside OF hers,
the GibbOna estate paving for all this. Sir
John now asks that Executor Dlokerman be
compelled to put the body Of William Glib
boDs where the monument indicates that he
was buried. The curious case will be tried
in New Haven.
The capture Of four Englishmen near
Smyrna has again called attention to the pre-
yalenCe Of brigandage throughout Turkey,
Soarcely a day passes in which the lo"al
papers do not mention new captures. In
Macedonia and along the shores Of Asia Minor
to within twenty miles of the capital brigands
arc everywhere. The want of railways and
other means If communication makes their
escape easy. Many Of them are believed TO
be in league with the police, who are usually
unpaid. and in case OF the brigands being
turkish arc believed to be unwilling TO at
tempt Il capture even when bribed. motto
riOuR ecoundrel, the captain of a band within
forty miles Of the capital, bossts Of having
killed t%enty-seven with his own hand. He
was captured two years ago but was allowed
to escape. Property, the Constantinople
correspondent Of the DuiV NelCs says, is
everywhere deprecated in value and farms
are even deserted in consequence Of the pre-
vaIenCe OF bGgandaRc, The neighyOrhOod
Of Smyrna is especially favored by them,
partly from the increarc in wealth due TO its
r8iiWayB and commerce, and partly from the
facility Of escape to the Agean Islands.
A New York jew,Ier has a curious clock
which was Imported from Paris. II is a
bronze medal Of steam boiler, and has a
steam gauge, safety waive and speed rcgula-
tor, while q thermometer occupies the place
Of the wafer gauge. The dial q the clock is
on the furnace door and abuye it is a bsTlm-
ct r. When the clock is running the pond
ant balls OF the speed regulator do the work
Of LhC ordinary peuduiHm.